The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-11-09

old echool teacher 70 break IL over your
back. That will make your hair curl.
"WHY SHOULD We HANG TIE AEARcRIsrsY"
asks q very young man. Well, my son.
about as good reason as l can think OF,
is because they declared that they set ont
TO make war upon the millionaires, and
began by killing some policeman. And
any man who can't tell a millionaire from
q policeman doesn't know enough to keep
himself alive very long. Even II we didn't
hang him, the fool-killer would meet him
some day and recognize him on sight. On
general principles, ! am opposed to killing
men in any way-With bomb, pistol or
cord-but when a fool sets out TO commit
suicide, it's hard to stop him.
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT.
what Is the best thing about the dedi-
cation OF a monument, o Mesrour?h The
prayer, o friend OF the poor mantle
prayer, because 1t is the shortest feature of
thr ceremonies" "And what is the worst,
then" THE poem" 'But sometimes
the poem, too, is short" Then il is still
wore, because, it being a little one, you
feel in all courtesy compelled to stay and
listen TO il, whereas from the long rhymiad
you can flee away" Then would we best
show our respect for the great aud good
were we-% ITO pray more and rhyme
less"
sPEAKs BUT NEVER PASSES BY.
'SiDgular. isn't it, what queer supersti-
tions some people have2 Now, there's
Johnson; he says he never can bear to
pass an open door" "Yes, L know 1t.
saw him dive into five saloons while going
8 quarter of mile yesterday morning
That's very common superstition"
DOESN'T WORK BOTH WAYS.
Monsignor Seton Says Gentlemen have
ancestors" So they have, Monsignor-so
they have. The mischief OF it is, so many
OF them have no descendants.
CON OR PER?
A writer in the Critic says he has been
converted by Darwin, lngersoll aud Henry
George" He doesn't tell US, but it Just
makes the worlds back ache with curiosity
to know into what that sort OF perscrip-
ton would convert a man.
THE ToIISG MASSES.
From The fact that the importation OF
an Episcopal clergyman from England
to fill the place OF rector of the Church
OF the Holy Trinity OF New YOrk"-al-
though we confess that we are rabidly
Unitarian on the question of the holy
trinity of New YOrk-has been prohibited
by the law forbiddiDg the importation Of
contract labor, it is evident the rector OF
that church has to collect his own salary.
If that doesn't make the preacher q
knight of labor, there's no lsboring men
in America.
CHAIN GANG FREEDOM.
'Give us the liberty of our fathers
shouted the Personal Liberty Anarchist,
Tor We will have blood" And investga-
ton showed that his father died in the
pepitentiary. Men made suddenly free or
Suddenly rich, my son, are much alike.
They prate most loudly and Extensively OF
the new possessions into which they have
just entered, striving to hide the naked
ness and destitution OF yesterday.
YOUTHFUL WISDOM.
The belle OF Athens, Ga, is only twenty
years old, and has refused thirty offers OF
marriage. Some girls Just seem to be born
with gooS sense.
EASILY ARRANGED.
Haven't named your new boy yet,
Benz well, no, not yet. You see,
there's q deadlock in the house. Wife
wants him named Alice. for her mother,
father" why don't you compromise,
then?" "How2" Name him Ben Her"
TRIUMPHANT HoMGoPATHY.
The Smithsonian Institute is expert
mentipg with snake poisons with a view
TO discover some remedy Tor rAttle-sDake
bites. At last accounts, at the close OF the
session, they had got as far as sp. fru. opt,
new remedy of the similia similibus
school; it destroys one snake by creating
lots of others.
STILL IN THE BUSINESS.
"Ignatius Donnelly has discovered an
other cipher" All, what is it2" "Igna-
thus Donnelly."
ALL ACTIVE.
81 always find you alone, Mr.. Hushup,
and yet your sign is Hushup IL Co. Who
is the Co. ?" my wife" "Ah, see.
Silent partner, ehT' Mr.. Hushup reluct-
t]y-"Er-yes-that is-n-no, not ex-
actly." Appalling silence ali round the
horizon.
THAT'S WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
When jefferson Davis reached Macon,
Ga, "a crowd OF forty thousand people
set up yell that could be heard three
miles," community that can yell like
that ought to throw in full case of capt
tai Y's and 60 all the "hollering" for the
whole country at every election. 1t would
be great rest for patriots with weak
lungs, and while il would keep the Ma
contains pretty busy, there would BIO big
money in it. Why, we would pay fair
TO middllng Macon yelier good wages to
stand at the gate and "holler" at strange
dogs that come into the ward Strange